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How do you deal with svn vendor branches when releases from the 3rd party vendor come out-of-order in their version number. eg, consider releases in this order:
1.0.0
2.0.0 alpha
1.0.1 (minor point ...

We use an open source project which is hosted on a SVN server for which we have only read access (call it SVN1).
We checked out this code, and for our private use, have done some modifications.
The ...

In "Version Control with Subversion", the Vendor Branches section sets up a vendor branch for "libcomplex" and then uses the following command to copy libcomplex into the main development branch:
$ ...

I have been thrown into a software development project where we have a PHP application from a vendor with fairly regular code updates. I need to be able to build on top of this code while, at the same ...

Our project uses several third-party open-source libraries, some of which require custom modifications.
For each library we created our own local git repository, added the original source location as ...

I'm having a local project and I want to use a git repository as versioning software.
As I'm using an external software on a SVN server as base for my project I think the best way is to have it as a ...

I want to store a project in Mercurial that contains external code (which can be modified by me) coming from Git and SVN repositories. In SVN I would solve this with vendor branches and copy the code ...

We have a rather large library that we need to periodically import (and then patch) to our code base.
The SVN Book seems to reccomend a "vendor branch" scheme where we keep our patched version of the ...

I have a Magento Enterprise Edition install in a repository, client's site is running, all is well. Now I want to upgrade this client to a new version of Magento, but the only help that EE gives me ...

At regular intervals, I receive a new release of a vendor's software, delivered as source code in a compressed package, and I don't have access to the vendor's source code repository. We make changes ...

A Git project has within it a second project whose content is being worked on independently.
Submodules cannot be used for the smaller, as even the subproject must be included when users attempt to ...

Git newbie here.
I'm building an iPhone app with PhoneGap, which has a Git repos. I'd like to keep track of my changes to the PhoneGap code (mainly, adding files to the www directory) in my own Git ...

I have a branch in an SVN tree which contains the source to a third party product. I need to update that branch with the latest version. If I check it out and copy the new source over the old source, ...